"These are not our values and these are a slap in the face to every Texan across the state," the senator from Fort Worth said at the League of United Latin American Citizens' state banquet Saturday night in the Galleria area. "These have been the values of a few very loud people who need to be removed from office."

Earlier in the day, after hours of deliberation at the GOP state convention, Republicans adopted an immigration plank that, among other proposals, calls to do away with a guest-worker program.